Mr. Aslam,Of the names mentioned herein under only Mogha aAamgitr gave a statement denying that hespoke to the mutneeers over phone and none other had given any such statement Is it not a tacit agreement with alegations. Please proove Ms Sunita Pal wrong and if you can not then will you please keep your trap shut for the time being. Let events take its own course.Ayubi
From: ahmed saleh <ahmed_saleh326@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Sunday, April 5, 2009 6:44:14 AM
Subject: Re: [notun_bangladesh] Re: [khabor.com] Fw: RE: Mystery of Sunita Paul - Analyst's observation
The law enforcement agencies found some ruling party leaders' direct conversations with the BDR mutineers over mobile phone after examining the mobile phone call lists of the detained BDR jawans on February 25-26 at Peeklkhana.
The law enforcement agencies identified the names which are Home Minister Sahara Khatun, State Minister for Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) and Cooperatives Jahangir Kabir Nanak, Awami League leader Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir, Dhamnondi-Hazaribag h MP Barrister Fazlee Noor Taposh and Mirza Azam.
The BDR mutineers held talks several times with the local MP Taposh.
The mutineers reportedly held talks with the leaders between 11:00 am to 3:00pm on February 25.
At least 820 BDR personnel and five civilians have been shown arrested to date for their alleged involvement in the mutiny.
Law enforcement agencies investigated the mobile numbers of more than 35 BDR personnel.
At least 10 BDR personnel had talked to the ruling party leaders over mobile phone. And 5 detained BDR personnel confessed to the law enforcement agencies that they held talks to one MP and another former MP about their demands.
Law enforcement agencies found that that DAD Touhid, Jawan Salim, Jawan Mofiz, Havilder Obaidul with other 10 BDR jawans held talks with the AL leaders.
Source said BDR Jawan Salim reportedly talked to MP Taposh at about 11: 00 am on the day of occurrence.
Investigation team found Nanak and Taposh mobile numbers from the Cell phone of Jawan Salim.
From 2:00 pm to 2:30 pm on 25 February DAD Touhid talks with the Home Minister Sahara Khatun. Touhid had also talk with Nanak, Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir and Mirza Azam over cell phone.
DAD Touhid also had talks with the Home Minister and the state minister for LGRD minister 20 to 25 times on 25 February at about 10 pm to 3pm.
Investigation officers of the BDR preferring mutiny anonymity told the New Nation that they found names of the AL leaders and BDR personnel after verification from the mobile phone operators.
But the AL leaders did not talk before the 25 February, he added.
Jawan Salim told the investigation officers that they took the Taposh's Mobile phone number from the detrained Torab Ali.
Earlier on Monday Criminal Investigation Department (CID) questioned Jamaat-e-Islami leader Barrister Abdur Razzak for more than three hours in connection with the February 25-26 massacre at BDR headquarters.
Nesarul Arif, police superintendent of the CID and in charge of the case, said yesterday that more people might be required to be questioned in the interest of the case.
A lot of big guns we may need to quiz as the case unfolds," Nesarul told reporters after grilling Jama'at-e-Islami leader Abdur Razzak at the CID headquarters.
From: Syed Aslam <Syed.Aslam3@ gmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, April 4, 2009 7:27:52 PM
Subject: [notun_bangladesh] Re: [khabor.com] Fw: RE: Mystery of Sunita Paul - Analyst's observation
Dear All
The article below reveals the BNP-Jamaat's connection with AIPAC-Mossad' s operatives. The Khaleda government was paying $5000 a month to "The Talented Dr. Richard Benkin" a registered foreign agent & a member of AIPAC spy cell.... Jamaats connection with the people in Langly, Virginia dates back to the beginning of cold war days when now deceased Maulana Moududi was considered as an asset for CIA ....
Thanks
Syed Aslam
AIPAC = American Israel Public Affairs Committee
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The Talented Dr. Richard Benkin
It turns out that Dr. Richard Benkin, the "reporter" who is the source of stories about Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury and Mr. Choudhury's supporter, is registered as a foreign lobbyist. However, if I asked you to guess which government he represented, you would probably be way off the mark.On September 6, 2005 Dr. Richard Benkin registered as a foreign agent with the United States Department of Justice, under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), for the Government of Bangladesh. [Click here to see the registration document.] Given the kind of articles Dr. Benkin writes about Bangladesh, this revelation is rather shocking.Dr. Benkin was hired to prepare and disseminate informational materials via radio or TV broadcasts, magazines or newspaper articles, letters or telegrams, press releases and the internet. He was hired to disseminate this information to public officials, civic groups or associations, legislators, newspapers and editors. According to the document filed with the US government, Dr. Benkin had already received $5000 from the Government of Bangladesh as payment for his services. He was to receive $5000 per month based on an oral agreement between Dr. Benkin and the Government of Bangladesh. According to the filing:The Registrant agreed to provide Public Relations services to the Foreign Principal at a cost of $5000.00 per month, to be paid to the Registrant at the beginning of each month for services that month. There is no formal duration, but it is expected to last at least twelve months.A month after Dr. Benkin filed his paperwork, the respected lobbying firms Ketchum Washington and The Washington Group also registered as foreign agents for the Government of Bangladesh to do public relations. [Click here to see Ketchum's registration and click here to see The Washington Group's registration. ]
There is one significant difference between Dr. Benkin's lobbying and those of Ketchum and The Washington Group. While Ketchum and The Washington Group indicated in their filing that they would deal with the Bangladeshi Embassy in Washington via the ambassador, Shamsher M. Chowdhury, the filing by Dr. Benkin indicated that he would deal with Lutfuzzaman Babar, State Minister for Home Affairs in Bangladesh. The difference is significant.
As an aside, the reader will note that in the first email Rabbi Sue Levy sent me regarding Mr. Choudhury, she accused the Bangladesh Embassy in Washington of trying to discredit Mr. Choudhury.
It does seem unusual that Dr. Benkin would ink his deal with a Bangladeshi state minister involved with domestic law and order, rather than with the official representative of Bangladesh, that is the ambassador and the Embassy. Why the Bangladesh Embassy was sidestepped in a foreign lobbying effort is certainly food for thought. Further Mr. Babar is featured and cited in a large number of Dr. Benkin's "reports" about Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury - yet, Dr. Benkin never mentions that he is a paid consultant working for Mr. Babar. Mr. Babar was also featured in a glowing article dated June 15, 2006 entitled "Babar & His Magic Stick" i nthe Asian Tribune, Dr. Benkin's mouthpiece of choice. The article was written by a certain Christopher Giddings whose prose is decidedly Bangladeshi in tone, rather than one of a native english speaker.
Those familiar with Bangladesh will note that Mr. Babar is a young politician who gained a reputation for ruthlessness by creating the Rapid Action Battalian (RAB) in March 2004, a paramilitary force responsible for countless extra-judicial killings in Bangladesh. Those unfamiliar with RAB under Mr. Babar can get a sense of their modus operandi by reading the publication "Judge, Jury and Executioner" by Human Rights Watch.
The current interim government in Bangladesh is likely tightening the noose on Mr. Babar, now the former state minister, on alleged corruption charges. So far, anti-corruption forces have raided his home, and have arrested his personal secretary and his cousin on corruption charges.
I can see why Mr. Babar might want a personal PR man to defend his brand of human rights abuses - a lot of people have famously died in the "crossfire" as RAB hunted extremists and common criminals alike. However, Mr. Babar might have been running his own little fiefdom without official government sanction. It makes little sense that at the same time the Government of Bangladesh, through legitimate diplomatic channels, was enlisting the likes of Ketchum and The Washington Group, that a state minister in Bangladesh would hire a foreign lobbyist on his own. It also seems odd that he is repeatedly cited by Dr. Benkin in his "reports" that masquerade as news stories without mentioning that Dr. Benkin is on Mr. Babar's payroll. I am sure the anti-corruption authorities in Bangladesh will have a few questions.
There is a lot of reporting to be done here. I leave it to the reader and fellow Bangladeshi bloggers to fill in the blanks to paint the complete picture. Something smells, and it smells bad.
BONUS for Bangladeshi readers: Here is a glowing article about Tareque Rahman by the aforementioned Christopher Giddings in the Asian Tribune. For non-Bangladeshis, Tareque Rahman, the son of the previous prime minister, is known in Bangladesh as "Mr. Ten Percent" and he has just been arrested for massive corruption.
[FARA documents via Shuchinta]
On 4/3/09, Isha Khan <bd_mailer@yahoo. com> wrote:
--- On Fri, 4/3/09, Zoglul Husain <zoglul@hotmail. co.uk> wrote:
Looks like RAW has decided to hit back at the onslaught of Mossad, represented by Sunita Paul and Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury. Mossad has been attacking the BAL government on BDR massacre, and RAW has been trying to defend the government by brushing off the attack through character assassination of Sunita Paul and Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury.
However, our basic task today is to organise political resistance against imperialism and hegemonism and I think we are steadily gaining ground.
RE: Mystery of Sunita Paul - Analyst's observation
Syed Aslam
Dear AllThe below is a short but intensely interesting revelation about Sunita Paul's anti-Bangladesh activities ......
I personally think that Sunita Paul/Ms. Susan Ramgopalam are ficticious charecters with Salah Uddin Shoaib Chowdhury & Dr. Richard L. Benkin´behind the scene.
Dr. Richard L. Benkin (a leading advocate for Shoaib Chowdhuri's cause !) was hired by Khelada government for lobbying in the U.S to put in a good word for the BNP/Jammat government in early 2006. They signed a deal with him to pay
him $5000 a month.
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhuri speakingat American Jewish Committee (AJC)lunchon where he vowed against the growingpower of Islamic Radicals and received AJC'sMoral courage award in 2006.Shoaib Choudhury
World's only Muslim zionist Salah Uddin Shoaib ChoudhurySalah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury is the
latest recipient of The Muslims Against Shariah Award [MASH] AwardOne analyst said: "My my my! A counter terrorism expert!! Sunita knows more about Bangladesh than any BD journalist or even intelligenceorganization .....Sent by:Syed AslamMystery of Sunita Paul - An analyst's observation
By KS
I am not good in computer and therefore, I asked a student to find Sunita Paul's write-ups in various journals/dailies that have been mentioned in her introduction given below. She tried a few like Sunday Ledger, African Times, Asian Tribune, Asiaweek, New York Sun, New Yorker, Bangkok Post, Washington Times, Asia Today, etc, and surprisingly she did not find her write-ups in these dailies. Secondly, she estimated that since late December 2008 till March 29, the said Sunita Paul published 25 articles. Among them 12 are on BDR/Army/Militancy and 6 on Salah Uddin Shoaib Chowdhury and rest 7 on AL, Sajib, etc. Out of her 35 write-ups for the last one year, 23 on BDR/Military/ Militancy and 14 on Shoaib Chowdhury.
Third, if you read http://Boycottbangl adesh.org/ 2009/03 of Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury and that of Sunita Paul's write-ups, for example, titled "Our Hero Salah Uddin Shoaib Chowdhury Attacked Again: How Long We can Remain Silent" (Feb 23, 2009), there is similarity in language and sentence structure.
Sunita Paul being an Indian born unfortunately never writes either on Indian or South Asian issues. She only writes on Bangladesh and on topics that are current with either Channel I's discussion forum in Bengali- Tritiyo Matra http://my.opera. com/channelitv/ albums/showpic. dml?album= 201498&picture=3022048, ATN's Bengali program Sanglap or so. The day Maj. Gen. (Retd) Moyeen Chowdury Bir Bikram mentioned the likely impact of Lt. Col (Retd) Faruk Khan's statement that JMB might be involved with the BDR Massacre, the following day, the said blog published that one Ms. Susan Ramgopalam had sent a letter to the UN Secretary General asking him to stop use of Bangladesh Military forces with the UN Peace Keeping Missions. Who knows, maybe 'great man think alike' across the globe!!! Maybe she was watching Tritiyo-Matra.
Thanks,
KSDhaka's Bengali daily Janakantha's comment onDr. Momen on illusive Sunita Paul, or Salah Uddin Shoaib himself?
From: abdul_momen
Subject: RE: Questioned probe report and trial uncertain in Bangladesh.
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 16:07:06 -0400
Dear Mr. Najmul Karim;
Thank you for your email. No, we are not objecting someone to write or express his/her opinion. Only question is 'credibility' ? It appears Salahuddin Shoaib Chowdhury (SSC) is writing under pseudonym (Sunita Paul) and most of the writings are 'negative' or basically character assassination. Question is why?
We tell our students that in these days of media, data and information revolution, it is essentail to critically examine the information, cross check them and evaluate their credibility prior to making use of them for judgement/decision. During December (2008)through March, 2009, Sunita Paul has written 25 articles and out of them 12 are on BDR/Military/ Militancy and 6 are on SSC and all on Bangladesh, and Bangladesh only. We are thankful to her as she took especial interest on Bangladesh. However, she did not publish a single write-up on any other South Asian country or even on her own country i.e. India. Does it sounds something unusual or somebody is on a especial mission?
An investigative journalist has sent the following few examples of Sunita Paul Vs. SSC's write-ups. You may like to look at it.
3. "Lawyers or liars?" by Sunita Paul, American Chronicle, June 22
Link: http://www.american chronicle. com/articles/ view/65836
Enclosed file: 3
4: "Fraud lawyer from Bangladesh", by Salauddin Shoaib Chowdhury, Weekly Blitz, Date Unknown
Link: http://www.weeklybl itz.net/index. php?id=128
Enclosed file: 4
5. "Bangladesh: Barrister Tania Amir: The Facade Behind a Pretty Face", by Sunita Paul, Originally appeared in a website called Bangladesh Open Source Intelligence Monitors (I find the name very curious), but it seems that this website is now defunct. However, there is a reproduction of this article on Facebook (posted by someone called Sohaila- obviously another pseudonym)
Link: http://www.facebook .com/topic. php?uid=47593971 119&topic=6742 (Please see post #4 by Sohaila)
Enclosed file: 6
6. "Money Sucker Female 'Lawyer' in Bangladesh" by Sunita Paul, Express Press Release, July 25
Link: http://express- press-release. net/51/Money% 20sucker% 20female% 20%60lawyer% 60%20in%20Bangla desh.php
Enclosed file: 7
MomenSunita Paul : From the land of "make-belief" !!!!Sunita Paul was born in 1952 in an affluent family in Kochin, India.
Born as a deaf and dumb, Sunita Paul decided to use pen in expressing herself. She was unwilling to surrender to the fate due to her being a deaf and dumb. This has inspired her in winning over adversities thus finally attaining higher education as well dedicating in the profession of a writer and analyst.
She obtained her twice Masters in Political Science and journalism. Later she worked with a number of research institutions and started writing for nuemrous newspapers and periodicals in India and overseas.
Her works have appeared in Sunday Ledger, African Times, Global Politician, Jerusalem Post, Women's World, Insight Magazine, Europe Post, The Asian Tribune, Countercurrents, American Thinker, Intelligence Reporteur, Daily Post, Daily Sun, Times Herald, Daily News, New York Sun, Newsday, New Yorker, Washington Times, Israel Insider, CFP, New York Post, The Leader, Evening Star, Daily Observer, The Nation, Bangkok Post, Jakarta Post, Asiaweek, Dawn, The Citizen, Herald Tribune, Dimension, Outlook, Day After Day, The Pioneer, Lokmanch, Morning Leader, Frontline, Blitz, Malaysia Sun, Assam Tribune, Chandigarh Times, Morning News, The Age, Telegraph, The Week, The Standard, Women Voice, Asian Tribune, Global Politician, American Thinker, Slate, Reporter, Response, Straight Times, Intellect, Advocate, Asia Today, The Mirror, The Mail, The People´s Review, Panorama etc. She is a regular columnist for American Chronicle reaching over 11 million readers every year.
Sunita Paul is considered as an expert of South Asian affairs, counter-terrorism and international relations
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SEOUL, South Korea – The U.S. and its allies sought punishment Sunday for North Korea's defiant launch of a rocket that apparently fizzled into the Pacific, holding an emergency U.N. meeting in response to fears the country was testing long-range missile technology.
President Barack Obama called for a global response and condemned North Korea for threatening the peace and stability of nations "near and far." Minutes after liftoff, Japan requested the emergency Security Council session in New York.
U.S. and South Korean officials claim the entire rocket, including whatever payload it carried, ended up in the ocean but many world leaders fear the launch indicates the capacity to fire a long-range missile. Pyongyang claims it launched an experimental communications satellite into orbit Sunday and that it's transmitting data and patriotic songs.
"North Korea broke the rules, once again, by testing a rocket that could be used for long-range missiles," Obama said in Prague. "It creates instability in their region, around the world. This provocation underscores the need for action, not just this afternoon in the U.N. Security Council, but in our determination to prevent the spread of these weapons."
While the rogue communist state has repeatedly been belligerent and threatening — as it was when it carried out an underground nuclear blast and tested ballistic missiles in recent years — Pyongyang showed increased savvy this time that may make severe punishment more complicated than ever.
Unlike its previous provocations, the North notified the international community that the launch was coming and the route the rocket would take — although critics of North Korea leader Kim Jong Il claim he really was testing a ballistic missile capable of hitting U.S. territory.
Using a possible loophole in sanctions imposed after the 2006 nuclear test that barred the North from ballistic missile activity, the government claimed it was exercising its right to peaceful space development.
The U.S. said nuclear-armed North Korea clearly violated the resolution, but objections from Russia and China — the North's closest ally — will almost certainly water down any strong response. Both have Security Council veto power.
"We feel very strongly that what occurred today was a violation of that resolution," Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., told ABC's "This Week" on Sunday. "So we will go back and work ... to both toughen existing regimes, but to add to that resolution."
Analysts say sanctions imposed after the North's underground nuclear test in 2006 appear to have had little effect because implementation was left up to individual countries, some of which showed no will to impose them.
Kim is reportedly a big film buff, and his strategy appears to have borrowed heavily from the 1959 movie "The Mouse That Roared," about a fictional poor country that declares war on the U.S., expecting to lose and get aid like the Marshall Plan that Washington used to help rebuild its World War II foes.
In a statement released just hours after the launch, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said North Korea had informed Moscow ahead of time, and Russian radars tracked it.
Russia urges "all states concerned to show restraint in judgments and action," Nesterenko said.
Despite its policy of "juche," or "self-reliance," communist North Korea is one of the world's poorest countries, has few allies and is in desperate need of outside help. The money that flowed in unconditionally from neighboring South Korea for a decade dried up when conservative President Lee Myung-bak took office in 2008.
Pyongyang has little collateral, and for years has used its nuclear weapons program as its trump card, promising to abandon its atomic ambitions in exchange for aid and then dangling the nuclear threat when it doesn't get its way.
It's been an effective strategy so far, with previous missile launches drawing Washington to negotiations. The North also has reportedly been selling missile parts and technology to whoever has the cash to pay for it.
Kim wants food for his famished people, fuel and — perhaps most importantly — direct talks and relations with Washington.
Right now, the main contact is through six-nation talks aimed at getting Pyongyang to give up its worrisome nuclear weapons program. But that means dealing with two neighbors that the North despises most, Japan and South Korea.
It probably isn't a coincidence that the rocket was fired over Japan. North Korea had warned that debris might fall off Japan's northern coast when the rocket's first stage fell away, so Tokyo positioned batteries of interceptor missiles on its coast and radar-equipped ships off its northern seas to monitor the launch. Nary a shot was necessary.
Obama warned the launch would further isolate the reclusive nation. But pragmatism calls for engagement, especially with efforts to get North Korea back to the negotiating table for the six-party talks.
"We must deal with North Korea as we find it, not as we would like it to be," Stephen Bosworth, the U.S. envoy on North Korea, said Friday. "I've long since suppressed my tendency toward frustration. What is required is patience and perseverance."
Kim Keun-sik, a North Korea expert at South Korea's Kyungnam University, said the launch would chill ties between Pyongyang and Washington, but likely not for long.
"Wouldn't they eventually come to hold talks? There is no other way," Kim said.
U.S. officials also are trying to obtain the release of two American journalists recently detained by the North along its border with China. Paik Hak-soon, an analyst at the Sejong Institute think tank, predicted they would be used as bargaining chips, with the North likely "to try to link them to the nuclear and missile talks."
Iran, which also has a contentious relationship with the international community over its nuclear program and is believed to have cooperated extensively with North Korea on missile technology, defended the launch.
"North Korea, like any other country, has the right to enter space," Iran's state TV said in a commentary, adding that the "pressure on North Korea to give up its undisputable right" was "unfair and dishonest."
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Associated Press writers Jean H. Lee, Hyung-jin Kim and Jae-soon Chang in Seoul contributed to this report. Heilprin reported from the United Nations.